Tag Archive for: Sufi Poetry
Journal of Sufi Studies Review of Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection
Abstract:
“Scholarship on Islam in Africa has long been in need of comprehensive work on West African madīḥ (i.e. Arabic poetry in praise of the Prophet Muhammad).Recent articles have explicitly called for such an endeavor, and the time has come to fully exorcise the “Islam noir” specter that has compelled those who write on West African madīḥ to characterize it pejoratively as, in the words of John Hunwick, “often highly stylized, deeply stamped with the metaphors and clichés of Arabic models of former ages … sometimes managing] to rise above the merely imitative or artificial.” Oludamini Ogunnaike’s Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection is remarkably brief, but as the first monograph on the subject in English, it does the necessary work of sketching out the contours of the corpus and demonstrating how it should be understood and appreciated”
Journal_of_Sufi_Studies_Review_of_PoetryThe Wine Song (Khamriyyah) of Ibn Al-Farid
Shaykh Umar Ibn al-Farid was an Egyptian scholar of Islamic law, and a teacher of Hadith. His poetry is considered by many to be the the very height of Arabic Sufi literature.
The Mystic Rose Garden (Gulshan i Raz) by Mahmud Shabistari
The Gulshan i Raz is a collection of poems written in 1317 A.D. (717 A.H.) by Shaykh Sa’ad Al-Din Mahmud Shabistari in the mathnawi form. It is considered to be one of the greatest Persian works of Sufism. The poem is in response to a series of fifteen questions on Sufism asked of Shabistari by the scholar Rukh Al-Din Amir Husayn Harawi.
The Garden of Fragrance (Bustan) of Sadi
The Bustan is a book of poetry by the the great Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi. Written in the mathnawi style it was completed in 1257.
Layla – by Shaykh Ahmad Al-‘Alawi
A poem by Shaykh Ahmad al-‘Alawi
The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam
The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, E. H. Whinfield, and J. B. Nicolas
The Persian Mystics – Jami
By F. Hadland Davis
Salaman & Absal
by Abd Ar-Rahman Jami